Indian Wars chords by Bruce Cockburn

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Am

Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning C A D G B e
Bdim voicing 2 2 3 0 3 0

riff1:
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|-2s4s2--0--0----|
D|-2s4s2--0--0--0-|
A|----------------|
C|----------------|

riff2:
e|-------------------|
B|-s5s3--1--0--0h1p0-|
G|-------------------|
D|-------------------|
A|-------------------|
C|-------------------|

riff3:
e|----------------|---------------|
B|-s5s3--1--0--1--|---------------|
G|-s4s2--0--0--0--|-------------0-|
D|----------------|---------------|
A|----------------|---------------|
C|----------------|-0--0--2--2----|


INTRO:
Am riff1 C
Am riff1 C

VERSE 1:
Am                                     C
Out in the desert where the wind never stops
Am                                    C
A few simple people try to grow a few crops
Fmaj7                           C     riff2  Fmaj7
Trying to maintain a life and a home
C                       Bdim                      C      riff3
On land that was theirs before the Romans founded Rome

VERSE 2:
Am                                C
A few dozen survivors, ragged but proud
Am                                       C
With a few woolly sheep, under gathering cloud
Fmaj7                              C      riff2   Fmaj7
It's never been easy, or free from strife
C                         Bdim                  C riff3
But the pulse of the land is the pulse of their life

CHORUS:
Fmaj7                                        C
You thought it was over but it's just like before
Dm                     Bdim              Cadd4    C
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?

VERSE 3:
         Am                                  C
It's not breech-loading rifles and wholesale slaughter
     Am                               C
It's kickbacks and thugs and diverted water
Fmaj7                                     C     riff2  Fmaj7
Treaties get signed and the papers change hands
         C                   Bdim                C    riff3
But they might as well draft these agreements in sand

VERSE 4:
Am                         C
Noble Savage on the cinema screen
Am                                 C
An Indian's good when he cannot be seen
        Fmaj7                     C    riff2 Fmaj7
And the so-called white so-called race
C               Bdim     C         riff3
Digs for itself a pit of disgrace

CHORUS:
Fmaj7                                        C
You thought it was over but it's just like before
Dm                     Bdim              Cadd4   C
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?

Fmaj7                                        C
You thought it was over but it's just like before
Dm                     Bdim              Cadd4   C
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?